Canonical/Ubuntu Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 20, 2025

• Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu Blog: A journey of a thousand smiles: Questing Quokka

  Embarking on a quest can be serious business – whether you’re going off on a family holiday or traveling the hills of Britain in search of the holy grail, our focus is very much affixed to the finish line. Every year, nearly 1 million people from across the globe pack their bags and trek thousands of kilometers to a small island off the west coast of Australia. Rottenest, in Dutch meaning “The Rat’s Nest”, is home to not a rodent, but a peculiar little marsupial: the quokka. These perpetually grinning little creatures have lived on this majestic slice of land for millennia and have recently become a bit of a sensation in the age of social control media. 

• Ubuntu ☛ AMD SEV-SNP host support available on Ubuntu 25.04 [Ed: Fake security or outsourced back doors disguised as privacy]

  This makes Ubuntu the first production-grade Linux distribution to support AMD SEV-SNP from host to guest. No out-of-tree patches, no experimental builds: it all works out of the box. With this, you can now deploy confidential virtual machines (CVMs) on entirely Ubuntu-based stacks, in private clouds, or on bare metal nodes in public clouds.  In this blog, we will zoom into AMD SEV-SNP and how it helps you protect your workloads at the hardware level with confidential computing.

• Ubuntu Fridge ☛ The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 905

  Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 905 for the week of August 10 – 16, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.

• Ubuntu ☛ Canonical is now a platinum member in the Open Source Robotics Alliance

  Canonical remains committed to the future of ROS. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS are Tier-1 platforms for ROS 2 (including Jazzy and the forthcoming Kilted release), and with each new ROS 2 cycle, we will continue to prepare, validate, and maintain timely packages on Ubuntu. Through initiatives like Expanded Security Maintenance for ROS (ESM for ROS), Canonical has helped lead the way in securing ROS for enterprise use, delivering long-term security updates for ROS releases. Alongside Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Core –  a minimal, secure, and strictly confined OS – has supported companies deploying ROS at scale, helping them meet industrial standards in factories and beyond.

• XDA ☛ WSL2 isn't perfect, but it's the perfect amount of Linux for most people [Ed: Something isn't the same days after this publisher took Microsoft money; this is Windows promotion]